“Just before I came to you.”
“What did the woman look like—this Noreen Boyne?”
“I do not know; I have not seen her.”
“Then how came you by the paper with her signature?”
“Miss Llyn gave it to me.”
Anger filled Lord Mallow’s mind. Sheila—why now the way would be open to Calhoun to win—to marry her! It angered him, but he held himself steadily.
“Where is Miss Llyn?”
“She is here, I think. She came back when she left me at your door.”
“Oh, she left you at my door, did she?... But let me see the woman that’s come so far to put the world right.”
A few moments later they stood in the bedroom of Noreen Boyne, they two and Sheila Llyn, the nurse having been sent out.